1992: Volume 23
Volume 23 Number 3 July 1992
Edited by: Jesper Rasmussen, Hubert Schmitz and Meine Pieter van Dijk
This Bulletin is a product of the working group 'Industrialisation Strategies' of the European Association of Development Institutes (EADI). At the general EADI conference in Oslo, June 1990, members of the working group expressed interest in exploring the relevance of flexible specialisation for Third World industry, especially small-scale industry. A workshop on this issue was convened in Copenhagen, June 1991, attracting 20 participants from all over Europe. This Bulletin presents an edited version of some of the contributions to this workshop. A common objective of all contributors is to explore how the insights of the flexible specialisation approach can be used to inform research and policy making in industrial development of less developed countries
Volume 23 Number 4 October 1992
Edited by: Robin Murray
One of the least contentious issues in post war development thinking was the form of public administration. There were disputes about the boundaries between public and private, but not about how the public sector should be run. Most newly independent states adopted a model based closely on metropolitan and colonial forms of administration, or, in the case of socialist countries, on the Soviet system. What is striking are the similarities between capitalist and socialist forms of administration, and the common influences which shaped them - earlier absolutist regimes on the one hand, and modern business organization on the other.
1993: Volume 24
Volume 24 Number 1 January 1993
Edited by: Mick Moore
It is little more than three years since the Berlin Wall began to crumble. In that time, the political context and content of development aid to the Third World has changed rather dramatically. 'Political conditionality' the tying of official aid disbursements to the quality of government (or 'governance') that recipients provide has become the norm. The idea of relating foreign aid to the type or quality of government has a long history. However, it has been applied only sporadically and inconsistently; and, in practice, it was often a matter of supporting one's actual or potential allies in the Cold War context.
Volume 24 Number 2 May 1993
Edited by: John Humphrey
Studies of reorganization among large firms, the focus of this Bulletin, has been stimulated by the increasing dominance of Japanese industry and the attempts to introduce Japanese methods into Europe and North America. Japanese firms have been very successful in manufacturing, and a large part of this success has been attributed to the way large Japanese firms are organized - their management structures, their links with supplier companies and the way they organize production activities on the factory floor. Many Western firms are desperately trying to find out the 'secret' of Japanese success and adopt many elements of Japanese practices themselves. In this literature there is a varying emphasis on interfirm and intra-firm organization.
Volume 24 Number 3 July 1993
Edited by: Gordon White
This Bulletin stems from a dissatisfaction with the way in which the idea of 'the market' or 'the free market' is currently used in conventional discourse on development issues. One notion is particularly dominant, implicitly or explicitly: 'the market' seen as a flexible, atomistic realm of impersonal exchange and dispersed competition, characterized by voluntary transactions on an equal basis between autonomous, usually private, entities with material motivations.
